Labor Senator Fatima Payman has made history by delivering the first speech in parliament by someone wearing a hijab. Payman acknowledged Australia's progress and asked if '10 years ago' this would have been accepted. Read more here: auspol
Labor's Fatima Payman has encouraged girls who decide to wear the hijab to do so with pride in her first address to the Senate.
“A hundred years ago, let alone ten years ago, would this parliament accept a woman choosing a hijab to be elected?” she said in the Senate. “I want young girls who decide to wear the hijab to do it with pride and to do it with the knowledge that they have the right to wear it. I won’t judge someone wearing boardies and flip-flops across the street. I don’t expect people to judge me for wearing my staff.”
Senator Payman also reflected on priorities outlined by the government led by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, including aged care, acting on climate change, childcare and skills reform as well as enshrining an Indigenous Voice in the constitution.
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